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- Our mundane lives contain the sacred and are enclosed in the sacred. Every ordinary act is an act of worship and glorification. The deepest stream of the Divine in our consciousness is birthing a new mythos. - Hettienne BhaktyMaria Ma, The Temple of Mary

Thursday, September 29, 2011

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. - spoken by Jesus in The Gospel of Thomas

When something incredibly powerful and overwhelming takes control of you and your life, that is GOD.* Whether it is good or bad; joyful or painful; it is GOD. And within that there is something to be found, an awakening to be discovered, a lesson to be learnt. The lesson is always I AM THAT I AM; I Am Love I Am.

It is easy to see GOD in another or in a relationship, when the other loves and supports you. It is even easier to know that this is GOD when you are swept up in an amazing, ecstatic love with a special another. But it is not that easy to remember and to see that it is also GOD when you are brought down by a chronic or terminal disease; when you are drawn into a relationship with another that sucks the life out of you or when you are followed by hardship and challenges.

A soulmate or the love of your life; finding a partner that will bring you wholeness - these are all popular archetypal journeys that are shown to us as the ideal. Even the yearning and search for the holy Beloved; the Higher Self or Self-Realisation and those infinite moments of at-one-ness. But this is only a small part of the picture. In fact, all ideals and idealisations are the worship of idols. Each time you decide that this is how it is or how it should be, you are creating an idol in your own image.

Humanity suffers from deep seated feelings of limitation, feelings of separation, abandonment and impoverishment. These feelings and beliefs are further entrenched and conditioned into you by the trinity of culture, religion and myth. But within each and everyone of you there is an infinite Self; a Spirit beyond imagination; an ability and capability to rise above every possible limitation and restriction. This great capacity can also be evoked in a violent and cruel manner.

But that which is within you, is GOD. GOD is your true nature. Your true nature behind the conditioning, the beliefs and the rules by which you live. It is probably one of the most difficult stages of the spiritual journey and it presents itself over and over, until you have completely surrendered to That Which Is : how to discern what is Thy Will?

It is a lengthy process to try and discern when is it ego, when is it mind, when is it true nature? All your conditioning will come into play. All that you have been taught that you are, will come into play. And time after time, you may feel that you have 'failed'.

When the desired outcome is not achieved, you may feel that you have made wrong choices. When you are overcome by a long term or debilitating illness, you may believe that you have lived out of alignment with your true nature. But is this so?

GOD IS. There is no plan or specific destiny; there is no agenda. Ultimately GOD IS. Not good or bad. Beyond all the stories and struggles is an infinite capacity and infinite Well of Love. (I use the word Love in its highest sense; that of unconditional acceptance and that which translates into duality as infinite compassion)

And You are from that Source. GOD is your essential nature and your Spirit. GOD is your very fabric and your every breath. GOD is in your breath, in your throbbing heart, in your flesh. You are in GOD's mind even when GOD is not in your mind.

So, how would you become aware of GOD, your Source. You can imagine GOD; you can pray to GOD; you can try and express GOD. But all of these will merely invoke and create an idea of God, as opposed to GOD, and it will limit your own infinity and it will prevent your Spirit from manfiesting in this world.

You are here to become the embodiment of GOD in this world. - in your own unique way.

When you have been swallowed by a relationship or a series of events (much like Jonah and the whale) and you come out the other side, with the overwhelming thought and realisation of : "what happened? who am I? how did I end up here?..... then you realise that there is a power greater than yourself. But pain is not welcomed and so the first reaction is "this is wrong" ' "this should not have happened to me", 'this is not what I think God is, or what God will do'.

Or the most popular notion : 'it is not positive, therefore it cannot be of God'. So we call it the shadow or the dark side of the self. But in actual fact, it is only the unexplored and unknown part of the Self which is revealed to you in that experience. And yes, it shows that you are so much more than what you believe yourself to be. And yes, GOD is nothing like what you thought he/she was. And then the true seeking may begin. You have woken up!

And there are many opportunities for waking up to an ever increasing truth and realisation. So when you feel that you have been dragged down to an incredible pit of despair or pain or hopelessness. do not judge this to be 'wrong' or 'bad'. Cease desisting. Surrender all resistance. Welcome GOD in whatever form she chooses to reveal herself to you.

Use the fear that arises to deepen your own seeking and your spiritual practise; use this opportunity to truly accept that GOD is present in each and every breath and let the whale disgorge you on a new beach!

*G-D, the unspeakable as opposed to God, the man-made projection and idea

The blue stage brings the first glimmer of light and the awaiting dawn into the blackness of the Nigredo of the Alchemical Journey of the Soul.

This morning, as I prepare to put down some insights and thoughts on the Lapiz stage, Divine Mary enters with a message for you, the reader.

Dearest one, listen to my words with your heart. Be still and hear. Close your eyes and stare deeply into the infinite silence. Receive the gentle energies of the Sacred Heart and let the Realisations drop like pebbles into the lake of acceptance and peace.

There is no ideal human being; there is no ideal way of being; there is no ideal way of experiencing your human-ness, your relationships and your and other's actions and creations. By putting the illusion of an ideal onto yourself and onto the world around you, you are setting yourself up for failure, shame and guilt. The inner war that rages in the breast of the human, is the war between mind and heart. The mind has been trained to have certain expectations of how you should be, how a 'normal', 'healthy' and 'happy' childhood should have been, how your partner should act, how others should treat you. All of these have been written into a code of conduct, but every one's code is different, it changes perpetually and any attempt at adhering to a code, instead of allowing Love to guide and lead you, leads to rigid and painful behaviour, manifesting in crippling and restrictive disease and circumstance.

At times it may appear that you have found those whom subscribe to the same code of conduct as yourself, and that it is emotionally safe to side with them and to seek shelter with them against 'others' or against your own feelings of pain and suffering. And then, in the blink of an eye, betrayal takes place! And you feel disillusionment, betrayal and abandonment and the suffering sets in.

This is because no such code exists. The only code that is Real, is Love and Love is Unconditional, without conditions, without expectations, without withholding, without distinction, without judgement, without division.

The ideal that exists in your mind, has been created through your conditioning and your personal experiences. This ideal can never be met and can never be fulfilled. Therein lies much suffering. This ideal is not meant to be met or fulfilled. The only ideal that is Real and that can be attained by you, is the ideal of Love. Therein lies salvation.

You are not personally responsible for the early conditioning of your life; you are not personally responsible for the actions of the caretakers in your early life; you are not personally responsible for the collective consciousness of the world that you were born into and neither for the Cosmic consciousness.

Absolve yourself. Forgive yourself. Accept that in Love the Mystery exists. Only in pure Awareness can the Mystery be restored. In existence only the Golden Peace can be born. From the Infinite Ocean of Peace, the Golden One, the Son who acts and creates in peace and Love, can be born.

Today your personal responsibility lies in your choices, in your attitude and in your efforts to clear your own personal mirror from the ingrained patterns of belief and habit. Your personal responsibility lies in accepting the Higher Power in your life and dethroning the false self from your inner kingdom. You are responsible for the state of your inner kingdom and sacred garden; for watering the seeds of understanding and higher consciousness, lying dormant, waiting to sprout; for nurturing those new plants with loving thoughts, with forgiveness for yourself and others and by keeping your eyes on the Mark of Peace.

The Soul yearns for ecstasy. The ecstasy of the highest peace which can only be attained through the freedom of guilt and the burden of shame and judgement, of self, others and the world that is seemingly created. The painful and 'broken' world that you perceive, is born from your guilt and shame. The 'failing' world that you perceive, is born from your judgement. And this world, that is being created from moment to moment, hides the golden world of Peace and Love. It obscures your Vision. When your Vision is obscured, Wisdom does not exist. Wisdom is born from Vision - clear and pure Vision. As the mirror darkens, fear sets in and it seems that your belief in guilt and shame is True. It is a never ending circle. As you expect betrayal, you will experience betrayal and you will feel the pain of believing that you have been betrayed.

But your code of conduct and your set of rules and principles, belong to you and are created by you, by no-one else. Control is when you are trying to force others to become a part of your code of conduct and your created world with its own rules and morals and principle. In other words, your ideal. Your ideal is your own and you will find many ways in which to project this ideal onto the screen of life and onto those who will fit that ideal. But if you look carefully, you will see that no-one, divine or human, fits that set of ideals perfectly.

Perfection means the stagnation of the Soul and the life of the Soul. The Soul is born from the Ocean of Love, a never-ending existence of cycles, change, turbulence, tranquillity, beauty, organic life, death and growth.

Love accepts. Love accepts that All serves in the divine plan. Love Knows that all that seems bad, is still good. Love Knows that this 'illusion' serves you, the Golden One. Love is humble. Love understands that the arrogance of the mind is born from the fear that the ideal truly does not exist. Love Knows that the divine ideal of peace and compassion, is present at all times - even when you cannot see it, because of your darkened mirror which is clouding your Vision.

Love Knows that you are whole, that you are holy. That despite what you judge as broken, bad, negative, hurtful and betraying, your unconscious actions are invisible to you. Love Knows that you are blindfolded for a reason and that, as you grow into Love and you become more and more authentic as Whom You Are, your blindfold is removed, piece by piece. Love Knows that whilst you are in the darkness, you are still as holy as when you move into the Light. There is nowhere where God is not. Separation does not exist, other than in your mind. Perfection and idealism and codes of conduct, strengthens the belief of separation in your mind. The natural response to this belief, is the belief that you are unholy, broken and sick. The next step is that you are in 'need' of healing and that there is a lack of Love. Only your mind needs healing. The mind that excludes Love.

Earlier I said that the Soul yearns for ecstasy. Ecstasy is found in suffering. Ecstasy is found in pain. Ecstasy is found in pleasure. Ecstasy is found in joy. There are times when the Soul finds fulfillment for its yearning for ecstasy in pain and suffering. You cannot avoid this. The human experience is one of duality. You cannot Know pleasure without knowing pain. Your habitual attempts at defending against the experience of duality and against the experience of pain, becomes your armour. Your armour becomes your character. Your soma reflects your character and it sculpts around your armour, like clay in a potter's hands. Allow the divine Potter to mould you. Accept this Love without judgement, without fear. When you listen to the wise stories available to you in myths and folk tale, you will see that this Wisdom is available to you, all around you. She speaks to you wherever you look, if you open your eyes and ears. Only Good comes from all. There is only one consciousness Present and that is the Consciousness of Divine Love.

At times it would seem that no matter what, you are incapable of choosing loving and peaceful ways of acting. Then it is thus. Accept it and forgive yourself for not complying with your ideal state of being. Your True state and being is one of Absolute Love and Compassion. The web of that has been woven by the mind needs to be scrubbed away. This will take time. Set the intent. Ask for help, Divine or mortal. Stay in a state of acceptance and forgiveness. Hold the tension of the opposites. Live in the duality without resistance. And slowly but surely, the old energy will make way for the new. As the energy tracks in the auric field and brain changes, thus the neural pathways in the physical brain changes, the soma adjusts and remanifests and your self comes into alignment with your Golden Self. But this is only possible when you take back the projection of the idealised Self and allow the Self to manifest and to flow through you into this world and re-create a new world.

So, today step back from your own life. Hand it over to my Wise Ways and allow your child to come out and play in the Sun of Love and Adoration.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Mother Mary has given the Blue Cloak of Protection available to all those who ask Her. The Blue Cloak will cover your entire aura and with repetition of the meditation, its vibrational energy will increase and strengthen.

Diksha of the Blue Cloak of Protection - How to receive this diksha from Mother Mary

You may want to create a small altar with her image, incence and fresh flowers. Or you can use the image below.

Call on Her presence. 'Oh Divine Mother, please come to me; bless me with your Presence and reveal yourself'. You may become aware of a colour, a sensation or a strong rush of emotion. Allow, allow, allow. You may want to stay in the awareness of her Grace for a few moments before continueing.

Ask her to grace you with the Diksha of the Blue Cloak of Protection.

'Oh Divine Mother, by the power of Love vested in you and in myself, I ask to receive your Blue Cloak of Protection. I am willing to open my heart and mind to receive this energy transmission and to allow it to act in my energy field, cover my entire aura and protect all my energy bodies. Thank you thank you thank you. Jai Maa! So Be It'

Allow yourself to receive the energy and see/sense/visualise the Blue Cloak encircling your body. It covers your entire body down to the toes. The hood slips over your head and the two front seams meet down the length of your body.

Spend time, experiencing the energy of the Blue Cloak and take it with you, in your energy field.

Stay in this energy for 15 to 20 minutes until you feel the energies dissipate. You can repeat this meditation as often as you like. You can call on the Blue Cloak for Protection in times of anxiety or stress. The more often you meditate on the energy received during this Diksha, the stronger the energy will become.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Silent Heart diksha can be received directly from Mother Mary - you merely need to ask.

This Diksha flows from Mother Mary. It has the power to release trauma, physical, mental and emotional. The energies flow directly to the physical heart and heart chakra. It often brings many emotional openings to the receiver and a heightened emotional state is experienced for a while. As part of this opening up, the receiver feels everything more intensely, the numbed down layers are activated and opened up and this may feel chaotic and like emotional turmoil. But in truth, this is a very deep and profound healing as we are meant to feel.

We have been conditioned in becoming emotionally numb and this leads to a deep state of isolation, loneliness and desperate feelings of being separate from your Source and Divine Self. You need to feel in order to heal. Being in touch with the Divine Feminine and the Feminine Christ means that you are aware of the mortality of this physical life; that you have empathy with others, tolerance and deep compassion. The Silent Heart Diksha will enable you to find true acceptance for your own personal self and its archetypal journey into the Self.

The Silent/Healing Heart Diksha will release emotional pain, release anger and resentment and purify the energy system. It brings deep healing to the physical heart and the physical body as a whole. It has powerful grounding energies and bring you into your core and into your connection with Mother Earth and your own Spirit.

HOW TO RECEIVE THE SILENT HEART DIKSHA FROM MOTHER MARY

Sit comfortably and quieten your mind. Visualise the image of Mother Mary in your mind's eye. You may want to create a small altar with her image, incence and fresh flowers. Or you can use the image below.

Call on Her presence. 'Oh Divine Mother, please come to me; bless me with your Presence and reveal yourself'. You may become aware of a colour, a sensation or a strong rush of emotion. Allow, allow, allow. You may want to stay in the awareness of her Grace for a few moments before continueing.

'Oh Divine Mother, by the power of Love vested in you and in myself, I ask to receive the Silent Heart Diksha. I am willing to open my heart and mind to receive this healing and I am willing to allow the healing and transformation to take place day by day. Thank you thank you thank you. Jai Maa! So Be It'

Stay in this energy for 15 to 20 minutes until you feel the energies dissipate. It is best to lie down for a short while afterwards and also to drink a glass of water. You may keep a glass of water with you when you follow up with the Silent Heart Meditation. You can drink this water yourself or give to others in need of healing or peace.

SILENT/HEALING HEART MEDITATION

After having received the Diksha into your energy, follow up for the next 7 days daily and continue regularly with this specific meditation to deepen the energies and whenever you feel in need of Her Presence, Grace and Peace.

Sit comfortably and become aware of your breath. Be aware of your natural rhythm of breathing and do not control or manipulate the breath. Keep the focus on the breath for a while till you feel grounded and centred.

Set the intent through saying the following words :

By the Grace of the Mother Mary and the Divine Feminine Christ, I have received the Silent Healing Heart Diksha. I now immerse myself and my consciousness deeply into the Presence and allow myself to receive the complete healing. Thank you thank you thank you and so be it.

Then focus on surrendering the personal self. As you turn your attention inwards, focus on the heart chakra and continue to breath normally. Immerse yourself deeper and deeper, more and more inward, consciously renouncing your senses and your attachment to the personal self and your life and all its activities and objects. Take it slowly. Allow the process to take place in its own time. Keep on focusing on bringing the attention back to the physical heart and renouncing. You may use the mantra as follows :

Divine Mother

I renounce my self, I renounce my all

I renounce, I renounce all to you.

Or you can create your own mantra or prayer. The focus here is to surrender, to renounce, to sacrifice and to let go of. In the beginning, the mind may resist, but with practise this will become easier and more effortless.

Should strong emotions and tears follow, allow these to flow and then bring the focus and awareness

FEEDBACK ON SILENT HEART DIKSHA

Hi ma

I did the silent heart diksha yesterday and before it started I was like- I have been so unaffected by my meditations lately, nothing is going to happen( even though I really understand that spiritual experience is not just about somethinmg happening). From the moment I called on Mother christ, my black madonna, I felt immediately her energy, and this warm orange and red colour, this sacred heart warmth, plus all through the diksha and meditation I could see my fleshy healthy red pumping heart, the full physical aliveness and action and blood. I must have been meditating a while, and I had to rest when I finished, as you said we should. I had felt some emotion at the beginning of the diksha, but the rest of the experience was quite peaceful, I really took the renunciation to heart, I really meant it, to offer myself. Anyhow after wards I went down to the store to go get things and I felt a wave of love that made me a bit emotional, then I got home and I just started howling, crying for about an hour like I haven't sobbed in a while, crying about us struggling to have a baby, about life and our commitments to each other, and just letting it all out.

Then I knew She was working in me and I felt empowered and at peace x x x

Sunday, September 11, 2011

This Diksha flows from Mother Mary. It has the power to release trauma, physical, mental and emotional. The energies flow directly to the physical heart and heart chakra. It often brings many emotional openings to the receiver and a heightened emotional state is experienced for a while. As part of this opening up, the receiver feels everything more intensely, the numbed down layers are activated and opened up and this may feel chaotic and like emotional turmoil. But in truth, this is a very deep and profound healing as we are meant to feel. We have been conditioned in becoming emotionally numb and this leads to a deep state of isolation, loneliness and desperate feelings of being separate from your Source and Divine Self. You need to feel in order to heal. Being in touch with the Divine Feminine and the Feminine Christ means that you are aware of the mortality of this physical life; that you have empathy with others, tolerance and deep compassion. The Silent Heart Diksha will enable you to find true acceptance for your own personal self and its archetypal journey into the Self.

The Silent/Healing Heart Diksha will release emotional pain, release anger and resentment and purify the energy system. It brings deep healing to the physical heart and the physical body as a whole. It has powerful grounding energies and bring you into your core and into your connection with Mother Earth and your own Spirit.

HOW TO RECEIVE THE SILENT HEART DIKSHA FROM MOTHER MARY

Sit comfortably and quieten your mind. Visualise the image of Mother Mary in your mind's eye. You may want to create a small altar with her image, incence and fresh flowers.

Call on Her presence. 'Oh Divine Mother, please come to me; bless me with your Presence and reveal yourself'. You may become aware of a colour, a sensation or a strong rush of emotion. Allow, allow, allow. You may want to stay in the awareness of her Grace for a few moments before continuing.

'Oh Divine Mother, by the power of Love vested in you and in myself, I ask to receive the Silent Heart Diksha. I am willing to open my heart and mind to receive this healing and I am willing to allow the healing and transformation to take place day by day. Thank you thank you thank you. Jai Maa! So Be It'

Stay in this energy for 15 to 20 minutes until you feel the energies dissipate. It is best to lie down for a short while afterwards and also to drink a glass of water. You may keep a glass of water with you when you follow up with the Silent Heart Meditation. You can drink this water yourself or give to others in need of healing or peace.

SILENT/HEALING HEART MEDITATION

After having received the Diksha into your energy, follow up for the next 7 days daily and continue regularly with this specific meditation to deepen the energies and whenever you feel in need of Her Presence, Grace and Peace.

Sit comfortably and become aware of your breath. Be aware of your natural rhythm of breathing and do not control or manipulate the breath. Keep the focus on the breath for a while till you feel grounded and centred.

Set the intent through saying the following words :

By the Grace of the Mother Mary and the Divine Feminine Christ, I have received the Silent Healing Heart Diksha. I now immerse myself and my consciousness deeply into the Presence and allow myself to receive the complete healing. Thank you thank you thank you and so be it.

Then focus on surrendering the personal self. As you turn your attention inwards, focus on the heart chakra and continue to breath normally. Immerse yourself deeper and deeper, more and more inward, consciously renouncing your senses and your attachment to the personal self and your life and all its activities and objects. Take it slowly. Allow the process to take place in its own time. Keep on focusing on bringing the attention back to the physical heart and renouncing. You may use the mantra as follows :

Divine Mother

I renounce my self, I renounce my all

I renounce, I renounce all to you.

Or you can create your own mantra or prayer. The focus here is to surrender, to renounce, to sacrifice and to let go of. In the beginning, the mind may resist, but with practise this will become easier and more effortless.

Should strong emotions and tears follow, allow these to flow and then bring the focus and awareness back to the heart chakra and return to the process.

FEEDBACK ON SILENT HEART DIKSHA

Hi ma

I did the silent heart diksha yesterday and before it started I was like- I have been so unaffected by my meditations lately, nothing is going to happen( even though I really understand that spiritual experience is not just about somethinmg happening). From the moment I called on Mother christ, my black madonna, I felt immediately her energy, and this warm orange and red colour, this sacred heart warmth, plus all through the diksha and meditation I could see my fleshy healthy red pumping heart, the full physical aliveness and action and blood. I must have been meditating a while, and I had to rest when I finished, as you said we should. I had felt some emotion at the beginning of the diksha, but the rest of the experience was quite peaceful, I really took the renunciation to heart, I really meant it, to offer myself. Anyhow after wards I went down to the store to go get things and I felt a wave of love that made me a bit emotional, then I got home and I just started howling, crying for about an hour like I haven't sobbed in a while, crying about us struggling to have a baby, about life and our commitments to each other, and just letting it all out.Then I knew She was working in me and I felt empowered and at peace x x x

Third Initiation - Holy Grail

Third Initiation - Holy Grail

The Blessed Cosmic Mother eternally giving birth to the Sun, the Cosmic Christ, in our inner worlds and inner selves, manifesting in the physical, through all time and space, all cultures and traditions, all religions of Love.

The feminine aspect of the divine has had many faces – goddesses of love and hatred, war and peace, birth and death, summer and winter, n...

"In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories." ~Meinrad Craighead

Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. ~Rumi

I am the mother of fair love and of respect and of knowledge and of holy hope. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth; in me is all hope of life and of virtue - Ecclesiasticus 24:24.

“In the turmoil of our time, we are being called to a new order of reality. Working toward that consciousness, we suffer, but our suffering opens us to the wounds of the world and the love that can heal. It is our immediate task to relate to the emerging feminine whether she comes to us in dreams, in the loss of those we love, in body disease, or in ecological distress. Each of us in our own way is being brought face to face with Her challenge.”~Marion Woodman

The spiritual life is to be earnestly pursued as though no spiritual life existed. This is the only safe and sane way to travelin the deep waters of Spirit. Indeed, such childlike simplicity in the face of God/dess expresses a realisation that there is, in fact, no spiritual life as such separate from life itself. There is only one life, and the purpose of our prayers and meditations are that we may consciously live this life as we are then at One with God/dess.